THURSDAY, 14TH JUNE, 2001

Tinubu moves to tackle robbery with OPC

By Kenneth Ehigiator, Albert Akpor & May Mbat

LAGOS — THE Lagos State Government is considering the option of engaging the services of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) to check the rising wave of armed robbery in the state, according to Governor Bola Tinubu.

The governor on a sympathy visit to retired Chief Justice of the Federation (CJF), Justice Atanda Fatai-Williams said if the plan sailed through, the OPC members would be expected to complement the efforts of the police until a remarkable improvement in the anti-crime move.

However, police sources hinted yesterday in Lagos that the Presidency had directed that the numerical strength of policemen in the state be doubled to 24,000 from the present 12,000.

Justice Fatai-Williams was, last weekend, robbed at his Adetokunbo Ademola Street residence in Lagos by six men.

But Gov. Tinubu on a visit to him yesterday said the planned engagement of OPC members by government was one of the options being considered by his administration on account of the inability of the present number of policemen in the state to cope with the situation. According to him, this option will remain top on government’s list until the Federal Government approved the request for more policemen in the state.

Said he: "The return of the OPC is one of the options. We won’t throw away any options. Any means necessary to step down the crime wave in the state and control it will be adopted, as long as people will not use them (OPC members) for settling personal quarrels, friction by landlords and getting into other things."

The governor said "OPC vigilante might be in the interim until we get police, but you have to look at the other side of excesses coming from the OPC, where they might be used to settle personal quarrels and create additional problems for the state."

According to him, there are bad eggs within the group who may want to bring their over-zealousness to bear in the crime control activities, but stressed that over-reactions would be checkmated. The governor warned members of the public that government might not take kindly to a situation where OPC members, if co-opted into crime fighting and control in the state, were used to settle personal scores.

Tinubu lamented that the current crime wave in the state had reached a frightening level that there was need for him to meet with the President once more on how to articulate an enduring solution.

"We are going to intensify efforts, re-group and re-examine our strategy. It is getting to a stage that we have to hold another meeting with the President on national security to set up various efforts which I cannot now make public," he said.

He also made case for urgent provision of accommodation, effective equipment, logistics and other conveniences for the police as these, according to him, will enhance their morale.

lPresidency approves more policemen for Lagos

Vanguard has gathered that additional 12,000 policemen had been approved for the state by the Presidency to bring the strength of policemen in the state to 24,000. The Presidency was said to have been alarmed at the current security situation in the state.

The directive is now awaiting implementation by the Inspector-General, Mr. Musiliu Smith. Sources said the additional policemen might start arriving the state by the end of this month.

I share you concerns. The strength of the Oduduwa army is put at a conservative 2million and I think they are just about to start warming up for 2003. You will recall the recent seizure of 5Million dollars worth of Arms & weapons in Lagos.

The people I pity are my own people of Eastern Nigeria where an elected congressman found it in his heart to call for the killing/shooting of unarmed members of his constituency. I see more people coming back in body bags from the north.

I do not have any qualms about OPC as crime fighters so long as they refrain from stealing, looting and intimidating Biafran businesses in Lagos. I second them as crime fighters but they will have to go through the Feds to unban them or change their name from OPC to New and Improved.

Name change is way to go because they have developed a reputation as thugs, thieves, bunch of cowards and blood thirsty vampires on hopeless adventure.......the actualization of the Oduduwa Republic.

May be they will function better this time since most members, hopelessly unemployed will now get paid by the state government[Lagos]. That ought to ease their dysfunctional behavior.

Hail Biafra

If you people want to be nice to Orji Uzor Kalu, that is your problem. To me, he is a dangerous opportunist who must be stopped before he sells us up the river. I loved him when he stepped forward after Kaduna. But now, we have to stop him before those who warned us about him start laughing at us.

God bless your egbe omo oduduwa state.

=== Biafran efforts shall be vindicated by the minds of tomorrow.

MASSOB and it's members are a group of intelligent Efik, Igbo, Ibibio, Ijaw speaking people who have a specific goal and are not about to let the bastard in Aso Rock to intimidate them. The is a lawyer so he knows the way he can actualize Biafra legally. I thank God that I am from the East.

Look at the facts before making useless statements.

God Bless the Land of the Land of Rising Sun.

Nigeria's federal government will not accept plans by the Lagos administration to use an ethnic militia to fight crime in the country's biggest city, Minister of Information Jerry Gana said on Wednesday.
The minister, briefing journalists at the end of the weekly federal executive council meeting, said that apart from the federal government's determination to discourage the growth of ethnic militias in the country, the Oodua Peoples' Congress (OPC) remained a banned organisatiion See The Hausa-Fulani say NO to OPC policing Lagos.

Bamidele:
Now, what say you? Even Yoruba governors cannot call the shots in Yorubaland. Yoruba is occupied territory. Jerry Ghana is your Hausa-Fulani master. What is that laugh of yours? �gHahaha?�h

Can the politican deny the fact that the robbers are not their current or former political thugs.

We simply need a system to let the African Jews (Biafrans) take extra caution.

Nothing moves in your God forsaken Nigeria Without them, else just tell your mallam brother to allow the Hebrews go. You are still waiting for miracle. You will see it but Pharoah may be better than you after that. Just advice them, let my people go. We don't want the marriage called Nigeria. I long for Republic of Biafra, where technology will be our way of life, not empty policies of frustrations.

Aremu is the only 'Owambe' that have ruled Nigeria, we don't count Shoneka. The rest after the Biafran uprising has been mallams.

Within 30yrs after the uprising, check out how God has led His Children. Any industriy they put their hands into prospers. He turns desert for them into a fertile land. What evidence do you need again.

The cultural similarities.

Do you deserve some lectures, meet me in the lecture room by collecting my mail addy from the webmaster.

[ June 25, 2001: Message edited by: Eby ]

It is not late yet for you to join the Biafran Citizenship. I want to advice you on how to get it:

1. Through declaration of all their believes. Denoucing of your oringial "Ofe mmanu" or "Zuwo, Arewa" believes that if you kill, you will go heaven.
2. Through marriage, so you can be "Ogo Ndi Biafra".

It is a holy society.

Bature,
I doubt you care a thing about the difference between the Hebrews Igbos and the Jews. Your only concern is milking their resources. Its getting embarrassingly obvious the way you dabble mischieviously, albeit incoherently into any issue connected to Biafrans just for the sake of voicing something.

The minute you start acknowledging, respecting and putting into practise, the
religious freedom of non moslems in your midst, we'll start taking you serious.

Speaking of religious intolerance and barbarity, was it not few months ago that your jihardist zealous brethrens aka moslems hacked the christian Biafrans in their midst to pieces for the failed appearance of the lunar eclipse? What was your excuse? That your failure to see "signs from paradise" was caused by the non-moslem Biafrans whom you dubbed "infidels". Bature, this is the 21st century, for goodness' sake. When are you people going to embrace civilization?

Bature, the day you realize the twisted brainwashings you've been spoonfeld by the imams, is the beginning of your mental freedom. Thus, when you undergo that, you'll double over in agonizing repentance for so much evil you have been misled to commit in the name of islam.

Let me indulge my wishful thinking that you'd get a little bit of the idea that religion, especially the islamic one, is a poisonous opium which has led the northern indigenes to self-destructive addiction.
Hearken to my accent, tis a spiritualist speaking to you.

By the way, do you know that a pagan is one who does not believe in God? If so, then you would have realized that I believe in God.
Read my postings, too.

Now, since you have acknowledged being a Christian and a believer that spreads the word of Jesus Christ as the son of God, does that make you an original? Like in other religions as in Budhaism, Karmaism, Islamism and even Judaism, Jesus was never accepted as the son of God. Most of these religions recognized Christ as a messenger of God, just like other prophets, as in Mohammed, while others denounced him as a fraud.

Dateline: 30/06/2001 07:55:05

Crime: No Objection to OPC- Obasanjo
By Austeen Elewodalu

President Olusegun Obasanjo said yesterday that he had no objection to the use of ethnic militia to fight the rising crime rate in the country.

Speaking during his monthly media chat in Abuja, Obasanjo emphasised however that efforts of such groups should only complement those of the police.

He said he appreciated reasons why the Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu is planning to engage the services of the banned Oodua People Congress (OPC) to fight crime in the state, pointing out that in doing so OPC's activities should be in accordance with the law.

"We want to confine our fight against crime to the police, the body charged with the responsibility to fight crime. They have the means to investigate apprehend criminals and procure informants", he said.

Speaking on request for state police by some state governments, Obasanjo said he believed that it would be better to strengthen the existing police force to perform its constitutional duties.

"I believe that what we should do is to strengthen what we have. When we have 36 police than we will have 36 standards", he pointed out.

Responding to question on clamour for the convocation of Sovereign National Conference, Obasanjo aid those behind the call had ulterior motives.

He said people have different reasons for their call for a constitutional conference. Some, according to him said they want to put in the constitution self determination which he pointed out may lead to session.

On the rising cost of food in the country, the President said the Federal Government had cause to intervene by buying food from farmers because they were not selling their products at profitable prices.

He argued that there had been between 150 and 200 per cent increase in income of the people but lamented that farmers had been at disadvantaged position.

"We should not blame farmers for the high cost of food. The directors get their prices for their services, the lawyers, lecturers and so on get fair prices for their services, why the farmers? he asked.

He said it is the availability of food that really mattered and not their prices adding that government was trying to ensure that the food was available.

On ports congestion, he said government was not prepared to relax its order of 100 per cent inspection of good, a step which he said was already yielding results.

Nevertheless, it all means the time is now as Nigeria openly disintegrates.

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The Guardian
Wednesday, July 4,2001
Police intercept 26,500 cartridges

From Charles Coffie Gyamfi, Abeokuta

EFFORTS by the Nigeria Police Force to combat crime may have begun to yield fruits as Ogun State command has intercepted 26,500 shot gun cartridges being smuggled into the country from the neighbouring Republic of Benin.

The cartridges were concealed in seven unregistered, different brands of second hand vehicles tokunbo, also being smuggled into the country.

Nine suspects, including a 75-year old blind man, are being held at the command's headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta in connection with the crime.

Parading the suspects yesterday, the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Udom U. Ekpoudom told journalists that police acted on a tip-off, and appealed to members of the public to give useful information to the police.

The suspects were arrested at Alabata village in Odeda local council area.

At the same occasion, a suspected notorious rapist Mr. Tajudeen Akanni a.k.a Boss, was also paraded. He was alleged to have raped one Miss Alaba Kayode (22 years) to death on May 30, this year.

Also one Miss Anike Ogunbo of Oke-Ifon area of Abeokuta was also arrested for allegedly attempting to lure and kidnap four pupils of Alasalatu Primary School, Abeokuta.

They just gave us a bad name to hang us (MASSOB). They said because we are importing arms into the country to execute war, that is why they said 100% declaration in the port. What a lying government?

Now the youths they trained against Abacha is disturbing them. The OPC weapons where are them?

Their sins will find them out, The evil that men do lives with them.
God Bless Biafra.